LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

What home is complete without a seascape on the wall?

The sea provides a backdrop to all our lives – even in our homes, for we seem to have an indefatigable appetite for seascapes. Romance, beauty, danger and power are all...

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...

Lifeboats less then 10 metres long (C and D class inflatables and 21 ft Atlantic rigid inflatables) now carry out more than 55 per cent of all the RNLI's service calls, and with more than 135 boats of these classes now on station, and a...

And talking of parrots...

What does the word 'polylope' mean to you, apart from two love-struck parrots setting out on a new life together? In fact it represents an opportunity for significant cost savings to the...

BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...

OC T . 2 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 7.55 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that two steamers had been in collision near the Fork Buoy. A strong squally N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...

IN each succeeding Number of this Journal, it has been our painful duty to record the disasters which day by day have occurred to shipping; and our Wreck Register shows that, on an average of the whole year, about two wrecks a day take place...

SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

THE 25th Anniversary Meeting of this Institution wag held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Friday, 3rd June, His Grace the DUKE OF M...